Week Three: Lucky Number '7' at the Casino

The "Swinging Aces" are back together – that's one in a revolving door of
names for the four of us (McIntyre, Joey Lawrence, Joey Fatone and Drew Lachey). ... If you have any ideas send them along. (E-mail them to editor@people.com, and we'll send them to Joey.) But I think you gotta see us do our thing before you give us a tag. We have a good time singing together and I think the audiences are diggin' it.

We had a couple of shows at Mohegan Sun (in Connecticut) this weekend and hit the tables a little bit.

Can't say we lit it up on the craps tables but then we played a little
blackjack and came alive. Fatone was the heavy at the table with the
big chips, Drew kept warning me that I was losing my diaper money and
J-Law was taking it slow – not interested in wasting to much dough but
still a player. I pointed out that mine and Joey Fatone's piles of chips
reflect the timing of our boy-band successes. I was playing with 25's
and he was playing 100's. ... But every time I got blackjack I'd tell him,
"Here come the New Kids!" in that obnoxious-casino-gambling-have-to-be-there sort of way. It was good fun and I got to hang out with my old man, who drove down from Boston to see the show. He thought it was marvelous. He keeps calling our expectant baby "Tommy." He's laying it on thick, trying to pass down his namesake. We'll see...

The "Four Jacks" do get along very well. Maybe it's because we've all
been around and "seen it all" so there's not a lot of drama and some
healthy respect going around. Plus we've all worked hard to get where we
are, and it's nice to get to a point where you can do good work AND have
a few laughs at the same time.

They say luck is being prepared when opportunity knocks... Well, maybe
we're just lucky.

Of course, you can ask the other guys and get 3 different answers, but
what do they know?